Radovan Bast
@radovan.xyz
theoretical chemist turned research software engineer - CodeRefinery, open science, research, software, data, computing, teaching, oceanography, computational geometry, baking, occasional 8-bit stuff - he/him
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1st episode of 2025 winter season of #code4thought: radovan.xyz, Richard & samumantha.bsky.social explain how the coderefinery.org helps researchers get up to speed with the digital/software skills they all need. Out not on your podcast app, YouTube podcast and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com
Code for Thought
Welcome to Code for Thought, the podcast about software for research and the people who make it. Languages: English, German, French
codeforthought.buzzsprout.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
1st episode of 2025 winter season of #code4thought: radovan.xyz, Richard & samumantha.bsky.social explain how the coderefinery.org helps researchers get up to speed with the digital/software skills they all need. Out not on your podcast app, YouTube podcast and codeforthought.buzzsprout.com
Today I watched "The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake" [C. Muratori] - amazing presentation and a carefully researched history lesson about OOP, about where the core ideas came from and where some really good ideas got lost:
www.computerenhance.com/p/the-big-oo...
www.computerenhance.com/p/the-big-oo...
The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake
My presentation from the inaugural Better Software Conference, with notes.
www.computerenhance.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Today I watched "The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake" [C. Muratori] - amazing presentation and a carefully researched history lesson about OOP, about where the core ideas came from and where some really good ideas got lost:
www.computerenhance.com/p/the-big-oo...
www.computerenhance.com/p/the-big-oo...
Looking back at years of doing web development with a tiny browser console log window and complaining about it until I learned that I can configure it to use a separate window.
July 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Looking back at years of doing web development with a tiny browser console log window and complaining about it until I learned that I can configure it to use a separate window.
It is such a joy to browse the amazing interactive articles by Bartosz Ciechanowski - like this one (but there is so much more!): ciechanow.ski/mechanical-w...
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
ciechanow.ski
June 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It is such a joy to browse the amazing interactive articles by Bartosz Ciechanowski - like this one (but there is so much more!): ciechanow.ski/mechanical-w...
💡 TIL that G. Voronyi (of Voronoi diagrams) was the doctoral advisor of B. N. Delaunay (Delaunay triangulation) and W. Sierpiński (Sierpiński fractals).
June 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
💡 TIL that G. Voronyi (of Voronoi diagrams) was the doctoral advisor of B. N. Delaunay (Delaunay triangulation) and W. Sierpiński (Sierpiński fractals).
Trying out my first Windows installation in this century - what did I miss?
June 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Trying out my first Windows installation in this century - what did I miss?
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We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts
June 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts
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Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
www.unidata.ucar.edu
May 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy
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US-RSE is here! 🎉
@us-rse.bsky.social
@us-rse.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
US-RSE is here! 🎉
@us-rse.bsky.social
@us-rse.bsky.social
Fortran calling Rust
A tour of interfacing Fortran with Rust through a C interface
radovan.xyz
March 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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🧵 10 Simple Rules for Leadership Without Formal Authority
A resource to use when you're leading and growing teams you don't have formal authority over.
Full resoruce at: eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1... y también en Español eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1...
A resource to use when you're leading and growing teams you don't have formal authority over.
Full resoruce at: eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1... y también en Español eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1...
10 Simple Rules for Leadership Without Formal Authority
eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io
March 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
🧵 10 Simple Rules for Leadership Without Formal Authority
A resource to use when you're leading and growing teams you don't have formal authority over.
Full resoruce at: eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1... y también en Español eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1...
A resource to use when you're leading and growing teams you don't have formal authority over.
Full resoruce at: eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1... y también en Español eoss-om-communitycalls.github.io/2024-08-27-1...
This amazing space is recharging and inspiring like a visit to a museum or an art exhibition.
The new issue of The HTML Review is here!
Twelve pieces of poetry, fiction, essays, and experiments, all of which use and explore the world wide web as medium.
The table of contents as always designed by my brilliant co-editor Shelby
thehtml.review/04/
Twelve pieces of poetry, fiction, essays, and experiments, all of which use and explore the world wide web as medium.
The table of contents as always designed by my brilliant co-editor Shelby
thehtml.review/04/
the html review 04
thehtml.review
March 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This amazing space is recharging and inspiring like a visit to a museum or an art exhibition.
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Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
openrxiv.org
March 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
TIL about this very cool #map of bedrock by the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU): geo.ngu.no/kart/berggru...
March 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
TIL about this very cool #map of bedrock by the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU): geo.ngu.no/kart/berggru...
Time to archive data. #FiveThirtyEight
March 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Time to archive data. #FiveThirtyEight
Typst is such a pleasure to work with: the usability, the documentation, the Typst Universe, the Open Source - thank you!
Typst 0.13 releases today! This update is all about listening to feedback. Read on to find out which of the most highly anticipated changes we made.
February 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Typst is such a pleasure to work with: the usability, the documentation, the Typst Universe, the Open Source - thank you!
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Closeread Prize winners are here! 🏆
Want to create engaging, scroll-based stories with your data? See stunning scrollytelling examples made with Quarto: posit.co/blog/closere...
Learn more about Closeread and its power to create dynamic narratives. Congrats winners! #Quarto #RStats #Python
Want to create engaging, scroll-based stories with your data? See stunning scrollytelling examples made with Quarto: posit.co/blog/closere...
Learn more about Closeread and its power to create dynamic narratives. Congrats winners! #Quarto #RStats #Python
February 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Closeread Prize winners are here! 🏆
Want to create engaging, scroll-based stories with your data? See stunning scrollytelling examples made with Quarto: posit.co/blog/closere...
Learn more about Closeread and its power to create dynamic narratives. Congrats winners! #Quarto #RStats #Python
Want to create engaging, scroll-based stories with your data? See stunning scrollytelling examples made with Quarto: posit.co/blog/closere...
Learn more about Closeread and its power to create dynamic narratives. Congrats winners! #Quarto #RStats #Python
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I've been collecting guidance, documents, examples for open-source software projects, such as on governance, code of conduct, licenses, etc. in github.com/corsa-center....
Now I would like to add sustainability plans. What projects have good plans? Or even guides about how to write one.
Now I would like to add sustainability plans. What projects have good plans? Or even guides about how to write one.
GitHub - corsa-center/oss-documents: Collecting guidance, documents, examples, templates for open-source software project, such as on governance, roadmaps, contributing, license, code of conduct
Collecting guidance, documents, examples, templates for open-source software project, such as on governance, roadmaps, contributing, license, code of conduct - corsa-center/oss-documents
github.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I've been collecting guidance, documents, examples for open-source software projects, such as on governance, code of conduct, licenses, etc. in github.com/corsa-center....
Now I would like to add sustainability plans. What projects have good plans? Or even guides about how to write one.
Now I would like to add sustainability plans. What projects have good plans? Or even guides about how to write one.
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⚒️ CodeRefinery free online workshop on tools and techniques for more reproducible research; six half-days March 25-27 and April 1-3, 2025
More info and registration: coderefinery.github.io/2025-03-25-w...
#RSEng #FAIR #researchsoftware #git
More info and registration: coderefinery.github.io/2025-03-25-w...
#RSEng #FAIR #researchsoftware #git
CodeRefinery workshop March 25-27 and April 1-3, 2025
Free workshop on git, testing, documentation, and more in a workshop - for researchers and scientists.
coderefinery.github.io
February 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
⚒️ CodeRefinery free online workshop on tools and techniques for more reproducible research; six half-days March 25-27 and April 1-3, 2025
More info and registration: coderefinery.github.io/2025-03-25-w...
#RSEng #FAIR #researchsoftware #git
More info and registration: coderefinery.github.io/2025-03-25-w...
#RSEng #FAIR #researchsoftware #git
Thank you for this brilliant episode! It really brought hope and clarity into these dark ages.
Elon Musk and his band of interns are ransacking the government, and online, big tech is colonizing the web with AI slop.
How do the humans, the users, fight back? Guest host Cory Doctorow helps break down the carnage and even offers some words of hope.
Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
How do the humans, the users, fight back? Guest host Cory Doctorow helps break down the carnage and even offers some words of hope.
Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...
February 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Thank you for this brilliant episode! It really brought hope and clarity into these dark ages.
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Donate to Wikipedia.
Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it
Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it
January 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Donate to Wikipedia.
Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it
Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it
When assisting researchers with #HPC computing and programming, 90% of my effort is spent on reproducing the problem, and only 10% on finding a solution.
I used to motivate #reproducibility with "it's good for others". Now: "it's good for you and allows me to help". Others benefit as side-effect.
I used to motivate #reproducibility with "it's good for others". Now: "it's good for you and allows me to help". Others benefit as side-effect.
January 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
When assisting researchers with #HPC computing and programming, 90% of my effort is spent on reproducing the problem, and only 10% on finding a solution.
I used to motivate #reproducibility with "it's good for others". Now: "it's good for you and allows me to help". Others benefit as side-effect.
I used to motivate #reproducibility with "it's good for others". Now: "it's good for you and allows me to help". Others benefit as side-effect.